Zeffie Tilbury

Zeffie Tilbury

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Zeffie Agnes Lydia Tilbury (November 20, 1863 – July 24, 1950) was an English actress. Tilbury was known first on the London stage and on Broadway in New York City. In 1881, she debuted on stage in Nine Points of the Law at the Theatre Royal, Brighton, England. She is today best known for playing wise or evil older characters in films, such as the distinguished lady gambler at dinner with Garbo in The Single Standard, as the pitiful Grandma Joad in The Grapes of Wrath and Grandma Lester in Tobacco Road. She appeared in over 70 films. Her earliest surviving silent film is the Valentino / Nazimova 1921 production of Camille. Tilbury is probably best remembered as the old lady who is befriended by Spanky and his friends on her birthday and, as a result, is transformed from a lonely, disagreeable recluse to a happy and loving carefree soul in the 1936 Hal Roach Our Gang comedy Second Childhood. In the same year she also portrayed the Gypsy Queen in the Laurel and Hardy film The Bohemian Girl. Tilbury was married twice. First to Arthur Frederick Lewis in June, 1887, and later to L. E. Woodthorpe, who died on April 8, 1915. She died in Los Angeles, California in 1950 at the age of 86.

  • Title: Zeffie Tilbury
  • Popularity: 1.459
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1863-11-18
  • Place of Birth: Paddington, London, England, UK
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  • Also Known As: Zeffie Agnes Lydia Tilbury, Zeffie Tilsbury
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  • 1940
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    The Grapes of Wrath

    The Grapes of Wrath

    7.8 1940 HD

    Tom Joad returns to his home after a jail sentence to find his family kicked out of their farm due to foreclosure. He catches up with them on his...

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  • 1935
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    Werewolf of London

    Werewolf of London

    6 1935 HD

    A strange animal attack turns a botanist into a bloodthirsty monster.

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    Arrest Bulldog Drummond

    Arrest Bulldog Drummond

    6.7 1938 HD

    The invention of a machine that can cause remote explosions brings the attention of Scotland Yard and Bulldog Drummond.

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    Bulldog Drummond Comes Back

    Bulldog Drummond Comes Back

    6.1 1937 HD

    Drummond's girlfriend is kidnapped by his enemies and he along with his friend Nielsen, an inspector from Scotland Yard, follow the trail and try to...

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    Bulldog Drummond Escapes

    Bulldog Drummond Escapes

    5.9 1937 HD

    Drummond manages to save a woman from jumping in front of his car but she runs away with his car. He traces her and she asks him to help her out of a...

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    Tobacco Road

    Tobacco Road

    6.6 1941 HD

    Shiftless Jeeter Lester and his family of sharecroppers live in rural Georgia where their ancestors were once wealthy planters. Their slapstick...

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    The Story of Alexander Graham Bell

    The Story of Alexander Graham Bell

    6 1939 HD

    Alexander Graham Bell falls in love with deaf girl Mabel Hubbard while teaching the deaf and trying to invent means for telegraphing the human voice....

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    The Mystery of Edwin Drood

    The Mystery of Edwin Drood

    5.5 1935 HD

    A choirmaster addicted to opium and obsessed with a beautiful young woman will stop at nothing to possess her.

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    Desire

    Desire

    6.7 1936 HD

    Madeleine steals a string of pearls in Paris and uses American engineer Tom, who is driving on his vacation to Spain, to get the pearls out of...

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  • 1929
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    The Single Standard

    The Single Standard

    6.2 1929 HD

    A bored socialite finds fleeting romance with an artist.

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    The Gorgeous Hussy

    The Gorgeous Hussy

    5.2 1936 HD

    It's the early nineteenth century Washington. Young adult Margaret O'Neal, Peggy to most that know her, is the daughter of Major William O'Neal, who...

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    Bulldog Drummond's Peril

    Bulldog Drummond's Peril

    5.7 1938 HD

    Drummond's wedding with Phyllis is interrupted when the inspector guarding their gifts is killed. He tries to trace the killers and uncovers the...

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    Rhythm in the Clouds

    Rhythm in the Clouds

    5 1937 HD

    Judy Walker is a poor songwriter who, through mistaken identity, gets her songs played on the radio.

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    She Couldn't Say No

    She Couldn't Say No

    6.8 1940 HD

    Two big city lawyers are handed an important case but then find it requires them to deal with the oddball and very shrewd characters in a small town.

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  • 1919
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    The Avalanche

    The Avalanche

    1 1919 HD

    A woman with a gambling addiction finds that her daughter is threatened by the same tendencies.

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  • 1919
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    A Society Exile

    A Society Exile

    1 1919 HD

    Nora Shard, a young American girl living in England, is ostracized from society for her presumed part in a scandal which culminated in a...

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    The King Without a Crown

    The King Without a Crown

    5.5 1937 HD

    This short explores the possibility that Louis XVII, son of King Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette, escaped death during the French Revolution and was...

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    The Fuller Gush Man

    The Fuller Gush Man

    1 1934 HD

    Walter goes to his girlfriend's parents to ask their permission to marry her; but the family puts on an act and pretends to be totally loony.

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    Boy Trouble

    Boy Trouble

    5 1939 HD

    A fussy shopkeeper's life drastically changes when his wife takes in two homeless boys.

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  • 1930
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    The Ship from Shanghai

    The Ship from Shanghai

    5.7 1930 HD

    On a yacht sailing from Shanghai to the United States, the sailors, led by the megalomaniac steward, revolt and take control.

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    Alice Adams

    Alice Adams

    6.7 1935 HD

    In the lower-middle-class Adams family, father and son are happy to work in a drugstore, but mother and daughter Alice try every possible...

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    Women Must Dress

    Women Must Dress

    3 1935 HD

    A divorced woman finds success as a fashion designer.

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  • 1920
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    Mothers of Men

    Mothers of Men

    5 1920 HD

    Young Austrian girl Marie Helmar, is left penniless by the death of her father and disgraced by Prussian officer Captain Von Pfaffen, she flees to...

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    It Happened in Hollywood

    It Happened in Hollywood

    6.2 1937 HD

    A silent Western star has trouble adjusting to the coming of sound.

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  • 1921
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    Camille

    Camille

    5.7 1921 HD

    Camille is a courtesan in Paris. She falls deeply in love with a young man of promise, Armand Duval. When Armand's father begs her not to ruin his...

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  • 1938
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    Woman Against Woman

    Woman Against Woman

    6.5 1938 HD

    A newlywed unhappily discovers that her husband's scheming ex-wife still has a controlling influence in his life and home.

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    Tell No Tales

    Tell No Tales

    5.3 1939 HD

    A newspaper editor turns a kidnapping into the banner headlines and exclusive story that could save his publication.

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    Give Me Your Heart

    Give Me Your Heart

    6 1936 HD

    An American lawyer's wife is reunited with her child and his father, an English nobleman.

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    Midnight Taxi

    Midnight Taxi

    5 1937 HD

    A federal agent goes to work for a taxi company believing it to be a front for a gang of counterfeiters.

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    The White Angel

    The White Angel

    8 1936 HD

    In Victorian England, Florence Nightingale's heroic measures slowly change the attitude towards nurses when it was considered a disreputable...

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    Ocean Swells

    Ocean Swells

    1 1934 HD

    A old lady and her 2 girls go husband hunting at a luxury resort.

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    Lady of the Tropics

    Lady of the Tropics

    6.1 1939 HD

    Playboy Bill Carey woos a half-caste beauty in French Indochina, but her second-class legal status makes a formidable barrier.

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    Balalaika

    Balalaika

    4.2 1939 HD

    A Russian prince disguised as a worker and a cafe singer secretly involved in revolutionary activities fall in love.

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  • 1931
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    Charlie Chan Carries On

    Charlie Chan Carries On

    6.5 1931 HD

    Charlie steps in to solve the murder of a wealthy American found dead in a London hotel. Settings include London, Nice, San Remo, Honolulu and Hong...

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    Hideaway

    Hideaway

    4 1937 HD

    A poor family receives unwanted houseguests when they're visited by gangsters looking for a place to hide out.

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    Kidnapped

    Kidnapped

    6 1938 HD

    Robert Louis Stevenson's hero David Balfour joins rebel Alan Breck Stewart in 18th-century Scotland.

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    Maid of Salem

    Maid of Salem

    5.9 1937 HD

    When a young woman named Barbara Clarke has an affair with adventurer Roger Coverman, it causes a scandal in the Puritanical town of Salem,...

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    The Earl of Chicago

    The Earl of Chicago

    5.6 1940 HD

    A behind the times Chicago bootlegger goes to England with his lawyer to claim his estate as the Earl of Gorley.

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    Emergency Squad

    Emergency Squad

    5 1940 HD

    Betty Bryant is an ambitious newspaper reporter in love with Dan Barton, a member of a big-city Emergency Squad who are trained to deal with riots,...

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  • 1937
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    Federal Bullets

    Federal Bullets

    1 1937 HD

    Federal Bullets is a leisurely paced Monogram crime melodrama with not a few clever plot twists. The FBI, represented by Milburn Stone and William...

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  • 1936
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    Grandma's Buoys

    Grandma's Buoys

    1 1936 HD

    Tom and Harry are sailors on a yacht, and go ashore for a few beers and whatever else may come up. What comes up is a brawl between them and the...

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  • 1934
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    Mystery Liner

    Mystery Liner

    4.6 1934 HD

    Police try to solve a murder on board an ocean liner.

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    Two Alone

    Two Alone

    7 1934 HD

    Mazie, a poor orphan girl, is mistreated by cruel farmer Slag and his wife for whom she works. Mazie, who is growing into a woman, does not like...

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  • 1941
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    Sheriff of Tombstone

    Sheriff of Tombstone

    6.8 1941 HD

    The mayor has sent for a gunslinger who, though appearing to clean up the town, is really to be the mayor's means of taking the town over. When Roy...

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  • 1936
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    After the Thin Man

    After the Thin Man

    7.336 1936 HD

    Nick and Nora Charles investigate when Nora's cousin reports her disreputable husband is missing, and find themselves in a mystery involving the...

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    Under Cover of Night

    Under Cover of Night

    5.7 1937 HD

    A detective (Edmund Lowe) trails a professor (Henry Daniell) who stole credit for his wife's research, then killed her.

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    Navy Wife

    Navy Wife

    5 1935 HD

    A Hawaiian naval nurse weds a widowed officer partly because he has a crippled daughter.

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    Stranded

    Stranded

    5.8 1935 HD

    A Traveler's Aid worker who delights in solving people's problems gets mixed up with gangsters.

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    The Last Days of Pompeii

    The Last Days of Pompeii

    5.6 1935 HD

    In this action-filled spectacle set in ancient Pompeii, a blacksmith becomes a Roman gladiator, though his rise to wealth and power is jeopardized by...

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  • 1934
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    Bachelor Bait

    Bachelor Bait

    5.7 1934 HD

    After being fired from his job at the Marriage License Bureau, a clerk turns to matchmaking.

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  • 1935
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    Public Hero Number 1

    Public Hero Number 1

    6.2 1935 HD

    G-Man Jeff Crane poses as a crook to infiltrate the notorious Purple Gang, a band of hoodlums which preys upon other hoodlums. Orchestrating the...

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  • 1938
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    Marie Antoinette

    Marie Antoinette

    6.288 1938 HD

    The young Austrian princess Marie Antoinette is arranged to marry Louis XVI, future king of France, in a politically advantageous marriage for the...

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  • 1936
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    Vamp Till Ready

    Vamp Till Ready

    1 1936 HD

    Charley's somewhat prudish wife pretends to be a party girl.

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  • 1936
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    Second Childhood

    Second Childhood

    7 1936 HD

    A lonely, rich, hypochondriac is celebrating her 65th birthday in the same manner in which she observes the other 364 days of the year by...

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